Bringing Clinical Trials to the Point of Care

Tryon Medical Partners, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a fairly new practice, which broke off from a nearby hospital system approximately three years ago. Overall, the patient does enjoy the experience and when integrated with primary care and their own PCPs, I think clinical trial retention rates are higher because of the attention from their provider." Grayson also sees that the patients are excited to participate when asked, and spread the word to friends and family. Because of the practice population, and history of underrepresentation, Grayson believes that the clinical research information and understanding for them is enlightening.

Guest Editors' Preface

In moments of crisis that test the stability of US nationalism—the civil war, the expansion of American empire, World Wars I & II, the civil rights era, the post-industrial era, 9/11, COVID—a pattern of violence against Asian Americans seems to make an appearance. Nearly a third of the nurses who have died of coronavirus in the United States are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide.2 Over 1.2 million Asian Americans labor in food-related industries nationwide—at farms, food processing factories, grocery stores, and restaurants—and are placed at higher risk of infection and mortality.3 In the spring of 2021, in the span of two months, lone white gunmen murdered Asian Americans in Atlanta, Indianapolis, and San Jose (all of the victims were essential service workers). In presenting the data, Wong and Liu invite us to consider how anti-Black tropes and invocations of a persistent "Black-Asian conflict" diverted attention away from the role of white supremacy in fomenting an anti-Asian climate. The new White House immediately promised to "Build Back Better" with a sweeping plan to restore domestic stability and the nation's reputation abroad;implied was the beating back of Trumpian revanchism.

Using Shakespeare to Address Societal Problems

Stephens uses Shakespeare to address societal problems. Teaching William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet's relevance to struggling readers is challenging. Like Kelly Gallagher's argument that struggling writers do not do enough writing, she thinks struggling readers suffer from similar failures: teachers do not do enough reading with students. Like Gallagher, she believes it is best to focus on what teachers can control. So, when she was required to teach Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to her ninth graders last year, she paused to reflect on undertaking this task with struggling readers while making the text accessible and meaningful. Here she describes her attempt to meet this task.

Ten Years After Oak Creek: Federal Policy Recommendations to Protect Communities Targeted by Hate

2022 was a year marked with significant anniversaries of hate against the AAPI community both historic and recent, from the 40th anniversary of the hate-driven murder of Chinese American immigrant Vincent Chin to the one-year anniversary of recent mass shootings in Atlanta and Indianapolis. These commemorations, moreover, came amidst a series of hate crimes targeting Sikh men in Richmond Hill, Queens, and a years-long spike in violence against Asian Americans - particularly Asian American women - ignited by the COVID-19 pandemic. One anniversary in 2022, however, is both important on its own right as a marker in the history of targeted violence and useful for contextualizing recent trends of hate in the US: the 10-year remembrance of the shooting at a gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in Oak Creek WI.

Editorial Comment: Feminist Methodologies at Play

Discourse concerning the Atlanta Spa Shootings, which happened around the time that this issue first started to come together in March of 2021, has renewed the urgency of thinking about performance and feminism together.1 Given that this issue's publication roughly coincides with the first anniversary of those murders, the violent events in Atlanta have loomed in the background of the editorial process. [...]although the essays in this issue address quite distinct forms of performance and paratheatrical phenomena from state surveillance to fan groups to online participatory audiences, all of the essays use feminist methodologies either explicitly or implicitly. [...]this editorial highlights some of their convergences to think through how the interventions of each author might speak to a feminist knowledge project that is critical in this historical moment. Fans watch events transpire in Wanda's magically created world, which is itself surveyed in the narrative by an extra-governmental agency (elaborated in the comic books if not so much in the television miniseries itself);these source materials give Wanda and Vision their names and provide many backstories for the roster of secondary characters. Barnette suggests that the series also provided a platform to see the ethical conundrums of real-life individuals whose positions of power grant their words authority;witness former president Donald Trump inciting the attack on the Capitol.

Love of Empire by Dissociations

In the past two years, as the whole world has been deeply mired in the COVID-19 pandemic, we may have observed neoliberal capitalism's crisis of care: exposed and exacerbated by the global pandemic, made explicit alongside examples such as the collapsing of health systems, the shortage of care labor and overwork of nurses, the serious outbreaks in aged care facilities, the increased burden of domestic labor and care work due to school closures, and the worldwide rise of domestic abuse. Feminist calls for economic independence for (mostly middle-class) women to work for equal pay as men certainly do not resolve the care problem but, instead, further obscure colonial divisions of labor under which the racialized labor mostly from formerly colonized nations is made to fill up the gap.2 I consider the discursive formations of love as a point of departure to review how the global pandemic bears on our everyday practices of intimacy. The historical effects of racialized displacement can be seen as consisting of three sets of often-dissociated social relations during the pandemic crisis: archetypical angel-heroines in white (nurses), angels in the house (housewife and mother), and fallen angels (prostitutes).3 During the pandemic, many of us constantly experience fears about the health systems being overwhelmed, even while we express growing appreciation for the essential care provided by health workers. The virus eventually spread to the teahouses of Taipei's Wanhua neighborhood—also known as an adult entertainment red-light district in Taipei. Since Wanhua was reported as the center of a major cluster, the workers in the sexual venues, in particular, became a singularized target of public criticism.

The Geopolitics of Anti-Asian Violence: Cold War Contradictions In the Era of "Building Back Better"

In this formulation, the US-ROK Alliance—what the State Department deems the "linchpin of peace, security, and prosperity" in the region—stands not as a form of military occupation or imperial clientelism, but one of righteous defense from regional bogeyman such as the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).3 The endemic violence of US militarism—from sexual exploitation in military "camptowns" to the extralegal status of US servicemen—is rendered a mere footnote to a program of liberal internationalism which claims to preside over what the US military euphemistically terms a "Free and Open Indo-Pacific. "4 Blinken's easy distinction between the singular act of the Atlanta shootings and the routinized violence of US imperialism speaks to the contradictions at the heart of the Biden administration's aspiration to restore both racial liberalism and global US power.5 Since the campaign trail, platitudes about restoring global US leadership have made up the core of the Biden administration's foreign policy platform. [...]Biden pitched his presidency as a means to reinstate the era of racial liberalism in order to "restore the soul of the nation" from the crude racism of the Trump era.7 Asian /Americans have been cast to perform the work of legitimation under the intersecting projects of racial liberalism and US hegemony—from the symbolic inclusion of Asian /Americans into the US national body to the incorporation of allied Asian states into a US-led orbit of militarized peace.8 On the one hand, Asian /Americans have become a performative symbol of a reascendant racial liberalism. What does it mean, then, in a region still shaped by Cold War imperialism, to proclaim that "America is back," as Kamala Harris did on her first trip to Asia as Vice President in August 2021?13 Even more, how do we make sense of the declaration of a "new" Cold War, emerging as it does from the unfinished business of an "old" Cold War that never ended?

Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History

The author highlights many challenges ahead that limit achieving the World Health Organization (WHO) End TB strategy without substantial additional investments and development of new tools to combat TB (the WHO End TB strategy targets a 90% reduction in TB cases and 95% reduction in TB-related deaths by 2035). [...]perhaps the book ends prematurely, because after it was written, new treatments were developed for highly drug-resistant TB that shifted to all oral regimens (WHO recommendation);a ≈90% favorable outcome was recently reported for the BPaL regimen used to treat highly drug-resistant TB (2). Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, USA World Health Organization.

MEETINGS AND SHOWS

Because of the impact that COVID-19 is having on conferences, please check the conference's website for the most up-to-date information. 2023 JANUARY ABMA Annual Meeting, Jan. 13 - 16, Carlsbad, Calif. Contact the Indoor Air Quality Association at 844-802-4103, info@iaqa.org or https://annualmeeting.iaqa.org MARCH HVAC Cold Climate Conference 2023, March 6 - 8, Anchorage, Alaska. Contact the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy at 202-507-4000 or www.aceee.org/2023-hot-water-forum IIAR Natural Refrigeration Conference & Heavy Equipment Expo, March 12 - 15, Long Beach, Calif.

How Do You Measure a Year?: The Official Voice of Perioperative Nursing

"1 As President of this wonderful association, there are so many ways that I can measure the past year. * In days: 333 serving as President. * In "President's Messages": 12 deadlines that had to be met (but more often were not). * In conference calls: with the Board;the Executive Committee;and various other committees, task forces, and groups. After the Reset, we held a combined orientation for the Board of Directors and Nominating Committee members. The COVID-19 pandemic has left its mark on the world, and our association has not been unscathed by it. Because the Headquarters team was nimble, resourceful, and acting in the best interest of the Association and you, our members, we emerged from the last two years financially strong, even after transitioning both the 2020 and 2021 AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expos into virtual events. Along with Lynn, my executive director, Becky Ruban, MSN, RN, SHRM-SCP, and Evelyn Rosenthal, AVP Leader and Employee Development Experience, have provided me with autonomy to do both my work and serve AORN during my tenure on the Board.

Literature Review on Relationship Between Types of Purchases and Usage of Digital Payment Methods

Today’s consumer has varied choices of digital payment methods in different point-of-sale locations. It becomes pertinent to have a profound understanding of users’ behavior towards digital payment methods relating to the types of purchases. This study highlights the association between the choice of digital payment methods 89+98 and the types of purchases. The literature review analyses the databases for literature of nationally and internationally reputed journals spanned from 2015 to 2022. It focuses on describing types of purchases and its effect and significance of the COVID-19 on usage of varied digital payment methods and evolution of a new theory of payment behavior. The findings of this meticulous literature review presented a deep understanding of this under-examined dimension of usage of digital payment methods. It will further facilitate providing users with a more conducive digital ecosystem which finally leads India towards a cashless economy. Further this study may offer a framework for the research scholars in this emerging research area.

“A Great Synthesis of Labor, Light, and Movement”

Among the human-mediated factors that drove the high rates of death and illness associated with that pandemic were wartime conditions, marshalling of military operations, mass transportation by ship and rail, and growing urbanization, which would have been celebrated by Futurists as transformative forces. Byron Breedlove, EID Journal, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop H16-2, Atlanta, GA 30329-4027, USA Return Address Send To Send To authors Authors editors Editors Comments 10000 character(s) remaining. July 22, 2022 The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. Volume 28, Number 8—August 2022 About the Cover “A Great Synthesis of Labor, Light, and Movement” Downloads Article ------------ RIS [TXT - 2 KB] Article Metrics Metric Details Related Articles International COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation ------------ COVID-19 and Agricultural Workers, Guatemala ------------ Influenza Surveillance Systems and COVID-19 ------------ More articles on Influenza Byron BreedloveComments to Author Author affiliation:

HIRING AND BEING HIRED: FACULTY MEMBERS SHARE THEIR STORIES

Five researchers offer advice on how to recruit and retain talented students and colleagues, based on their own experiences of being hired, and of hiring colleagues to join their research groups. LARA URBAN BE FAIR AND CONSIDER USING SOCIAL MEDIA I began my own research group at Helmholtz Munich, the German Research Center for Environmental Health, in June 2022. [...]I make use of social media, especially Twitter, to share research openings. Lara Urban is a conservation genomics researcher and principal investigator at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus and Helmholtz AI in Munich, Germany, and at the Technical University of Munich School of Life Sciences in Freising, Germany.

INTRODUCTION FROM THE EDITORIAL TEAM

[...]each year the Fall issue of Southeastern Geographer includes recognition of SEDAAG members for outstanding service and scholarship contributions in a summary of the previous Annual Meeting activities. Based on Mississippi being one of the hardest-hit states with respect to COVID-19, Ali et al. utilized the CDC's social vulnerability index (CDC SVI), geographic information systems (GIS), and linear regression to examine the spatial pattern of COVID-19 and its association with social determinants of health. Overall, the programs did strive to address the lack of access to fresh and healthy food in their communities but were limited by systemic constraints which hindered their ability to make lasting changes.

The Rise and Fall of the US-China Health Relationship

US-China health cooperation reaches back to the signing of the bilateral Science and Technology Umbrella Agreement, their first agreement after normalization of diplomatic relations in 1979. Bilateral cooperation has shaped the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and produced some of the world's finest epidemiological research over the last thirty years. US-China research and technical cooperation has covered the full range of health-related topics, with no area given more attention than research and technical cooperation on emerging infectious diseases. In the wake of the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the United States ramped up the staff presence of its Center for Disease Control (CDC) in China. Although this changed in the Obama years, as China's epidemiological capacity developed rapidly, the dramatic shift occurred with the Trump administration, whose cuts, just as COVID-19 arose as the largest epidemiological threat to the world in a century, left only a skeleton staff in place, and the US government without eyes and ears on the ground. Nonetheless, there is a reservoir of mutual respect and willingness to cooperate among the health professionals in both countries. If there is political will, this could become the foundation for a next-phase bilateral health relationship.

Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality

Kincraft: The Making of Black Evangelical Sociality, by Todne Thomas is reviewed.

The Epidemic During the Pandemic: Assessing the Federal Drug Administration's Efforts to Curb Youth Smoking After Passage of HR2339 by Congress

The act sought to improve Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation ofthe marketing, sale, makeup, safety, and study of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDSs). Since the passage ofthe act, the United States has made some progress in limiting youth access to flavored ENDSs. Factors influencing youth tobacco use included flavoring in tobacco products, product marketing and access, and misconceptions about health risks.5 Studies also show that tobacco industry profits from the sale of ENDSs have increased since the passage of HR2339 and through the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health advocates must quickly respond to tobacco industry marketing tactics by debunking misleading campaigns promoting new synthetic nicotine and "tobacco-free" products attempting to circumvent regulation.8 Along with increases in taxes on ENDSs and enactment of policies restricting the sale of flavored products at the local level, such actions can help protect young people from the harms caused by tobacco products and help discourage them from ever starting at all. ,4jPH CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence should be sent to Michael D. Celestin Jr, PhD, NCTTS, CHES, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences Program, School of Public Health, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, 2020 Gravier St, 3rd Floor, New Orleans, LA 70112 (e-mail: mceles@lsuhsc.edu).

An Interview with Lorri Saddler

Prior to this role, she served as Associate Vice President and Dean of Undergraduate Admissions where she worked with all campus stakeholders to develop and implement a strategic enrollment management plan as well as improve enrollment and other related services. When asked about the future of HBCUs, Dr. Saddler replied with a sentiment similar to her president's: "I think HBCUs are finally getting the respect and recognition they so richly deserve. Since their inception, these institutions have consistently produced trailblazers and difference makers throughout history. According to the CAU website, "Building on its social justice history and heritage, Clark Atlanta University is a culturally diverse, research-intensive, liberal arts institution that prepares and transforms the lives of students. Because I was in that space, it made it easier to talk with this population.

Beyond #StopAAPIHate: Expanding the Definition of Violence Against Asian Americans

A woman in Brooklyn, NY, suffered chemical burns after acid was poured on her while she took out the trash.1 An adolescent boy was sent to the emergency room after being attacked by bullies at a high school in San Fernando Valley, California.2 Six women were murdered by a gunman at their place of work in Atlanta, GA.3 These are just three examples out of more than 9000 anti-Asian hate incidences documented since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.4 Since 2020, the United States has seen an immense rise in anti-Asian violence. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, hate incidents could spread COVID-19 through close contact, further exacerbate mental health issues, and add additional burden to already strained health care systems. Systemic violence can include poverty and unemployment-Asian American women have had some the highest joblessness rates during the COVID-19 pandemic.7 It can include the US health care system, which bars permanent residents from Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility until they've held a green card for five years.8 SLOW VIOLENCE "Slow violence" is a term coined to describe the often unnoticed, slowmoving impacts of environmental pollution and racism.9 It can include disparities in the built environment, such as highways that have notoriously been purposefully built in low-income areas, crossing through Chinatowns across the country.10,11 It can include the effects of climate change, such as the fact that nearly all of those who died in New York City's basement flooding because of Hurricane Ida were Asian residents.12 STATE VIOLENCE State violence includes police violence, which targets Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Expanding our conceptualization ofviolence and deepening our understanding of the racism and oppression faced by the Asian American community will allow us to truly stop Asian American and Pacific Islander hate. ,4JPH CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence should be sent to Carolyn A. Fan, BA, Department of Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington Schoolof Public Health, 1959 NE Pacific St, Magnuson Health Sciences Center, Seattle, WA, 98195 (e-mail: cfan5@ uw.edu).